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by pclowes 7 days ago
How? I would argue Jack is a much better 0 to 1 guy than Zuck and Zuck is a better 1 to N guy

Jack: Twitter, Square (Block), Bluesky/ATProto, bitchat (interesting), buzz (we will see). He just always fumbles the 1 to N (See Vine as an example)

Other Twitter Guy: Medium

Zuck: PHP dev, gets a hit, reads innovators dilemma... buys instagram. Everything else sucks.

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You're right, but can we stick with Blue Ocean and Red Ocean as metaphors? 0 to 1 makes sense, but 1 to N loses it, and the whole framing reeks of pseudomathematics and math envy (which there is way too much of in the tech industry), when we have a perfectly good metaphor from competition in natural selection. Also the tech industry has way too much renaming-things-with-less-intuitive-terminology-to-seem-original.